Suspenders.



S. S. KORNREIOH.

SUSPENDERS.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 11. 1909.

Patented Dec.21,1909.

SAMUEL S. KORNREICH, 0F WARREN, PENNSYLVANIA.

SUSPENDERS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 21, 1909.

Application filed March 11, 1909. Serial No. 482,748.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL S. KoRN- REICH, manufacturer, a citizen ofthe United States, residing at \Varren, in the county of Warren andState of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Suspenders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in suspenders, and has to do moreparticu larly with the finished suspender button end, the object beingto utilize small pieces of leather in the manufacture of these ends,thus greatly reducing the initial cost of the finished article.

\Vith this object in View my invention consists in suspender button endsmade in two pieces with a metal binding clip for rigidly securing theseends together, making in effect a suspender button end of a single pieceas heretofore.

My invention further consists in certain novel features of constructionand combinations of parts which will be hereinafter described andpointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure l is a view of the completedarticle; Fig. 2 is a view showing the two attached parts which composethe suspender button end when together; Fig. 3 is a view of the blankforming the binding clip; and Figs. 4 and 5 are sectional views throughthe binding clip in blank form and in the partly bent or struck up form.

A, A represent the detached button ends, and B is the binding clip. Thisis cut from a small piece of sheet metal preferably bent through thecenter into V-shape as shown at 1, and this V-shaped portion is slottedas at 2, 2 and the metal is bent inwardly from the ends of these slotsto form spurs 3, 3, which are adapted to penetrate the leather formingthe parts of the suspender button end. Likewise at the edges sharp teeth5, 5 are formed which also penetrate the leather of the ends after thesides of the binding clip embrace the leather. Owing to the shape of theblank and the central spurs struck from the slots it will be seen thatthe spurs or teeth are the more readily and offectually made topenetrate the leather and to make a more rigid and secure fastening. Inthis way a very simple and effectual means is provided for utilizing acheaper grade of leather because in small pieces although the qualitymay be just as good if not superior to that used in the ordinarymanufacture of these suspender button ends. Without this metal bindingclasp the leather composing button ends costs in the neighborhood oftwenty (20) cents per pound, whereas the price of the leather from whichthese half ends, as it were, may be made and afterward joined by thisbinding clip, is in the neighborhood of five (5) or six (6) cents perpound, so that the utility of the device is beyond question. The metalbinding clip becomes not only a binder but a reinforcing device at thepoint of greatest wear, thus greatly lengthening the life of thesuspender ends.

It is evident that more or less slight changes might be resorted to inthe form and arrangement of the several parts described withoutdeparting from the spirit and scope of my invention as defined by theappended claims, and hence I do not wish to be limited to the exactconstruction herein set forth, but

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination with suspender button ends made in two pieces, of abinding clip composed of sheet metal having spurs at the center and alsoat opposite edges adapted to penetrate the suspender ends when boundtherearound, whereby to hold the parts together and serve to reinforcethe suspender button ends at the point of support.

2. The combination with suspender button ends made in two parts, of asheet metal binding clip having a V-shape bend through the center, saidportion slotted, spurs struck up from the ends of the slots and teeth atthe opposite ends of the plate, said binding clip adapted to be bentaround the adjacent ends of the suspender button end pieces and causedto penetrate the material of which the latter is composed.

In testimonywhercof I aflix my signature, in the presence of twowltnesses.

SAMUEL S. KORNREICH.

Witnesses SUMNER E. ORR, CURTIS M. SI-IAWKEY.

